Urvashi Buthalia is an Indian feminist writer, publisher and activist. In her book, The Other Side of Silence, Butalia claimed that the political partition of India caused one of the "greatest human convulsions in history".
Jennifer Kamau is the spokesperson of the International Women* Space, an organisation that she co-founded in 2012. She is also an activist and a researcher.. In 2019 she initiated the Break Isolation Group within IWS – a Self Organized Refugee Womens* working Group that offers Political Education on Self Organisation and Project Development to Women still in the Asylum System.
William Watkin is a Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Literature at Brunel University, West London. He is a specialist in contemporary continental philosophy and has published seven books. His most recent, Bioviolence: how the powers that be make us do what they want looks at contemporary geopolitics, technology and new forms of force and coercion. He is also a published journalist specialising in technology, data and the limits of truth.
A former student of Alfred Schmidt and Jaques Derrida, Alexander García Düttmann has taught Philosophy at a number of universities throughout the Anglophone world, and he is currently a professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Berlin University of the Arts. His recent books What is Contemporary Art? On Political Ideology and Love Machine: The Origin of the Work of Art have both been published by Konstanz University Press.
Eva Geulen ist seit 2015 Direktorin des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung und Professorin für europäische Kultur- und Wissensgeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Sie wurde 1989 an der Johns Hopkins University mit einer Arbeit über Adalbert Stifter promoviert. Ihren Lehrtätigkeiten an der Stanford University, University of Rochester und New York University (1989–2003) folgten Professuren für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn (2003‒2012) und an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (2012–2015). Zu ihren Publikationen zählen Aus dem Leben der Form. Goethes Morphologie und die Nager (August Verlag 2016), Giorgio Agamben zur Einführung (Junius 32016), Das Ende der Kunst. Lesarten eines Gerüchts nach Hegel (Suhrkamp 2002) und Worthörig wider Willen. Darstellungsproblematik und Sprachreflexion bei Adalbert Stifter (iudicum 1992). Eva Geulen ist Mitherausgeberin der Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Literatur und Philosophie vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart.
Adam Kotsko is an American theologian, religious scholar, culture critic, and translator, working in the field of political theology. Adam's research focuses on political theology, continental philosophy, and the history of Christian thought. Recently Kotsko completed a translation of Agamben's work Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet, Doubly Commented-Upon and Triply Illustrated which will be published by Seagull Press.
Peter De Graeve teaches philosophy and aesthetics at the LUCA School of Arts and has published extensively on philosophy, aesthetics, political philosophy and hermeneutics. De Graeve's work on Nietzsche and Deleuze have been enthusiastically received, and in 2016 he published an alibiographical novel, The Apostates.
Publications on: Nietzsche, Kofman, Deleuze, Nancy, Lefort, Heidegger, Machiavelli, and in general on aesthetics, political philosophy, historiography.